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Republicans maintained control of the House of Representatives in yesterday's elections and appeared to increase their majority. ''We made history tonight,'' said Representative Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia, chairman of the Republican campaign...

In a last-ditch effort to rally support for Republican candidates and give himself a Congress that he says he can work with, President Bush swung through three states today, making clear that he has almost as much at stake in the elections as the...

Ordinarily, being a member of the House of Representatives is one of the safest jobs in America. With the advantages of free mailings, free travel and political action committee money, 96.7 percent of incumbents were re-elected in 1996, 1998 and 2000...

For 20 years, Representative George W. Gekas of Pennsylvania has been a toe-the-line Republican in a heavily Republican district around Harrisburg. When the Republican governor and Legislature drew new lines for the state's Congressional districts...

September 29, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: Floyd Norris (Editorial Observer, May 9) says the bankruptcy reform bill passed by the House spares the wealthy and creates a bigger burden for poor and middle-class bankruptcy filers. In fact, the bill has the opposite effect. It...

May 17, 1999, Monday

Several House Republicans challenged an assertion by the Clinton Administration today that the independent counsel law should be permitted to fade into extinction, using a hearing into the law's future to pose pointed questions about what other...

The Justice Department will declare on Tuesday that it considers the independent-counsel law so ''fundamentally flawed'' that it ought to be scrapped this year, two Administration officials said tonight. The officials said the department's stance...

Following are excerpts from the presentations today by the House managers in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton. (Today's excerpts were recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency.) F. James Sensenbrenner...

Following are excerpts from the presentation today by Representative George W. Gekas, Republican of Pennsylvania, in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton, as recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency. The...

January 17, 1999, Sunday

Following are excerpts from the presentation today by Representative George W. Gekas, Republican of Pennsylvania, in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton, as recorded by the Federal News Service, a private transcription agency: We...